The Edo State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, has accused the state government of
misappropriating public funds and depleting the state’s
treasury to the tune of N142 million, which the governor
said was recently used to commission two projects in
the state.
The State Chairman of the party, Chief Dan Orbih, made
the allegations at Igboubazuwa, in Ovia South West
Local Government Area of the state, during a reception
rally to welcome defectors from the All Progressives
Congress into the PDP.
Orbih, who was accompanied by some chieftains and
candidates of the PDP, accused the State Governor,
Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, of signing out the sum of
N76 million and N66 million, on November 28 and 29,
2014 respectively, for the commissioning of projects by
the presidential candidate of the APC, Maj.-Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and a national leader of the
party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
It would be recalled that Buhari, had in November,
commissioned the six-lane Airport road and the
remodelled Imaguero College in Benin, while Tinubu
inaugurated the six-lane New Lagos Road and the
general hospital in Ewhohimi on December 19.
But Orbih, who claimed that the said projects had
earlier been commissioned, argued that the state had
never “witnessed this level of fraud and
misappropriation of public fund”, even as he warned the
two APC chieftains “to stay away from Edo State
because our accounts are usually emptied to rob their
over-bloated ego”, as their actions indicated that they
did not love the state.
The state chairman also used the opportunity to implore
the people of South South geo-political zone to make it
a responsibility to support President Goodluck Jonathan
in next month’s presidential election.
But the state government, in a reaction on Saturday,
described the claims as lies aimed at tarnishing the
image of the state governor, whom the people of the
state knew to be prudent.
The Commissioner for Information and Orientation,
Louis Odion, who responded to the allegations, said
that although the state government was not oblivious of
the envy of the PDP concerning the achievements of
the governor, it “least expected that the opposition party
would engage in forging vouchers to back up a
shameless lie”.
The picture below shows Chief Dan by the left and Gov. Oshiomhole by the right
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